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We buy balloons, we let them go.

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Bret Easton Ellis
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 7
Executive Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Podcaster
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
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LA
California
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The better you look, the more you see.
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I write books to relieve ­myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
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Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.
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Disintegration---I'm taking it in stride.
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There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.
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but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything, and she says calmly... glaring at me,If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.
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I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every day might be wasting those seven hours if he's not in the mood and doesn't feel the juice. I don't think discipline equals creativity.
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I think basically most men are misogynistic.
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At Columbus Circle, a juggler wearing a trench cloak and top hat, who is usually at this location afternoons and who calls himself Stretch Man, performs in front of a small, uninterested crowd though I smell prey, and he seems worthy of my wrath, I move on in search of a less dorky target. Though if he'd been a mime, odds are he'd already be dead.
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With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation...
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No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.
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After a while you learn that everything stops.
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Hope E.L .James doesn't think I'm being a prankster. I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream.
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My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.
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Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.
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What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?
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I've been accused of being very vain about my apathy.
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... her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.
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